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Resend
Posted on January 30, 2025 by David M Willis

192 thoughts on “Resend”

  1. NGPZ

    *plays “Filthy/Gorgeous” by Scissor Sisters on hacked muzak*

  2. Dante

    OH HONEY.

    HONEY WHY.

    (WE KNOW WHY SDLKGJDSLKJ LET’S GOOOOOOO)

    1. NGPZ

      LET’S FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOOO! ^^

      (stimming in place rn)

      *plays “Easy Breezy” by chelmico on hacked muzak*

      1. Dara

        YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

        [sunglasses.gif]

        1. Florence

          AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
          ???????????

        2. Dante

          ISTG I FEEL LIKE THE “YESSSSS…. YESSSSS!!” SICKO.JPEG

        3. Florence

          THAT IS ME WITH EVERY TEASE
          ITS TOO GOOD

        4. DJTsurugi

          still not beating those allegations. ~<3

      2. SocietyPilled

        What is the origin of “on the hacked muzak”?

        1. Aura

          In terms of it being a thing in this comment section, it was a thing Stephen Bierce (whose name I hope I’ve spelled correctly) used to leave in the comments, picking a song to represent the strip of the day. According to the deep lore (my half-memory of a time he explained it), way back in the olden days young rapscallions with the right know-how used to convince the machines that played store-muzak to play their records

        2. eh, whatever

          Someone came up with it ten years ago or so and said it every day. Then handed that responsibility to someone else. The rest is history.

        3. Nymph

          I don’t think it was handed over so much as hijacked, it was kinda his schtick and then he gradually stopped trying after NGPZ took it up. If there was ever an actual message from him saying “all yours” I missed it, but would love to know because it’s always kinda bummed me out for him.

        4. Mark

          “Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery”?

        5. NGPZ

          Actually he did give a message, about a month ago:

          “Working a lousy job that takes so many of my spoons I can’t stay up to midnight most nights anymore. :\ “

          which honestly really sucks, I too know what it’s like to be an ADHDer and struggle under late capitalism :(

        6. Bryy

          Taking potshots at commenters isn’t cool.

    2. Reltzik

      We do know why.

      ….

      It’s for shirts and jiggles.

      1. Dante

        [Standing Ovation]

      2. Dan

        [carried in triumph to the ceremony where one Internet is awarded]

      3. RoyanRannedos

        I thought this was an unexpected The Good Place reference, but I caught the pun eventually.

  3. Sirksome

    She REALLY wants her to see them!

  4. Kyrik Michalowski

    Oh Dorothy, you consistently make me smile, and hungry for chicken nuggets.

    1. NGPZ

      perfect gravitar XD ^^

      1. Kyrik Michalowski

        I can’t believe I rolled Walky again.

        1. Chaucer59

          Wally’s a wimp. Rolling him would be a piece of cake. Not sure it would get you much. Maybe a half-eaten bag of gummy bears.

  5. Sean

    Naturally, Milton is (mis)quoted right above her as Dorothy sends the text.

    1. True Survivor

      “Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss”

      “Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord envy them that? Can it be a sin to know? Can it be death?”

      “Wild above rule or art, enormous bliss.”

      -John Milton (utterly devoid of much needed context)

    2. Clif

      It was actually “A Good Book is the Precious Life-Blood of a Casper-Spirit” but Milton’s handwriting was bad.

      1. Mano308gts

        Fwiw, it’s “A Good Book is one precious life-blood of a casper-spirig”

        Pretty odd set of words to throw together. XD

      2. Daibhid C

        Casper the Friendly Spirit?

        How is this version less readable than the one with what my dad used to call “effing esses”?

    3. Thomas

      Luckily, it’s written in a font that says “I don’t want you to be able to read this,” so that’s all right, I guess.

      Also, I haven’t slightest idea what the gibberish above is about. I don’t think Milton even »wanted« to be understood, the pretentious twat.

      1. Thomas

        …and how is that quote an invitation to read books? Do I »want« to get my hands on the pernicious life-blood of a master spirit? I bloody well don’t. What’s that even supposed to mean? Again, obviously written by someone who considered »himself« a master-spirit writing for the ages.

        1. Rose by Any other Name

          … “-bater.”

          **immature giggle**

        2. Thomas

          Again, do I »want« to get my hands on the precipitous life-essence of a master-bater? I’d rather not, thank you.

        3. Deanatay

          Relax. I’m sure he’s protecting his…

          Precious. Bodily. Fluids.

          From us… Communist infiltrators!

        4. Thomas

          That a Howard Hughes quote? 😛
          Man, I can picture the paranoia!

        5. Scoutinthenight

          I’m sorry, I swear I hit the “Reply” link but it looks like I hit the Report link.

          I was going to say, have the warnings of Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper already been forgotten?

        6. Opus the Poet

          It’s a quote from a movie character, Jack T. Ripper in the movie Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love The Bomb.

    4. Hof1991

      A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
      John Milton, Areopagitica

      Half of a sentence is confusing. Though the full sentence is too.

  6. Thag Simmons

    That’s a good face in that last panel

    1. Michael Steamweed

      “My god, what have I done.”

      1. Thag Simmons

        “this is no longer a bit”

        1. Dante

          She agonized on it before and will agonize on it after. Her lawful ass knows this is know as Premeditation.

        2. Michael Steamweed

          Hopefully she commits to the bit and gives it thorough effort. She won’t be satisfied with anything less than a full boudoir set.

      2. eh, whatever

        “I am become Embarrassment, destroyer of worlds.”

        1. Michael Steamweed

          Let the arms (er, boobs) race commence!

          It’s the doctrine of MAD.

          (Mammary Assured Distraction)

        2. Schpoonman

          How I want to die.

        3. Michael Steamweed

          May I refer you to the Monty Python Meaning Of Life scene of a man’s chosen means of execution?

  7. brionl

    That’s the picture that Jennifer took for Dottie?

    1. Michael Steamweed

      I think those are Dorothy’s, not Jennifer’s.

      1. JA

        Yes, but Jennifer took the picture for Dorothy.

        1. Samniel

          I thought it was Amber who took the picture. Jennifer grabbed the phone and sent her own.

        2. MacareuxMoine

          Jennifer only took a picture of her own and gave Dorothy the permission to send it, but that never happened (as far as we know)

        3. MacareuxMoine

          I stand corrected: Joyce received Jennifer’s pic

        4. Betsumei

          Amber took the pictures of/for Dorothy, Jennifer took one of herself for Dorothy. This one has freckles and Dotty’s striped shirt, so it’s the one Amber took.

        5. DiktatrSquid

          Amber did. Jennifer took a picture of her own.

  8. Nerrin

    Don’t tell the others I said this, Dorothy, but you’re my favorite.

    (My favorite little disaster, but still.)

    1. Clif

      Valentines Day is coming. Be very very afraid.

  9. Michael Steamweed

    Good friends totally send ironic titty pics as a joke.

    1. Throwatron

      any good friends i wanna have

    2. Nymph

      And it’s important (for friendship) to really overthink it first.

      1. Dante

        Here in Latam we call it “reforzando la amistad” (strengthening [our] friendship.) It’s very heterosexual therefore valid 😛

        1. Nymph

          What a completely heterosexual practice, that’s so beautiful ?

        2. Michael Steamweed

          Muchas tetas.
          Muchos besos.
          Reforzando la amistad. 🙂

      2. Michael Steamweed

        Oh yes. And Dorothy is world class at overthinking. She’s gonna do a full boudoir portfolio and accompanying slide deck.

    3. SillyGoose

      1) I have decided I’m hetero (“a zero on the Kinsey scale” I think she said?)
      2) therefore everything I do is hetero
      3) should I ever do anything gay, please refer to 2)

      1. Michael Steamweed

        Totally sensible. No logical errors detected.

      2. HueSatLight

        She said, “probably zero, best I cal tell. I guess that estimate could change” the correct thing to say, so she’s immune from fluidity unless she plans for it.

    4. Michael Steamweed

      Goodest of good friends

  10. Bwsab

    YAY!

    1. Opus the Poet

      Still MIA, and not in this comic. Yay Newfriend is in Questionable Content.

      1. Freemage

        God I wish QC used a tag system like DoA does. It’d make it a helluva lot easier to look up half-remembered plot points.

  11. peng

    THATS SO LATE DOROTHY

    1. Dara

      Yeah, but probably way less late than it feels like it is to us. xD

      1. NGPZ

        time dilation is one hell of a drug :p

      2. Tan

        Okay, so… Since the previous attempt to resend, Jennifer sent a pic of her own breasts from Dorothy’s phone, there was the whole Incelboy encounter, Dorothy met up with Joyce & co, Joyce went to an entire class while Dorothy hung out with Jocelyne, Joyce finished class and came back, and then at least another hour has passed since then (as per Jocelyne saying she has an hour before she needs to go meet up with friends, then saying it is time to go meet up with friends). This has been at least a few hours.

        1. MacareuxMoine

          There was no previous attempt to resend. Dorothy did not hit the button back then.
          Also, Jennifer just took a pic and gave Dorothy permission to send it, which she didn’t either.

        2. MacareuxMoine

          I stand partly corrected: Joyce received Jennifer’s pic

        3. MacareuxMoine

          Link did not work: second try

  12. mindbleach

    Dorothy discovers the ohnosecond.

    1. Dante

      Post pic clarity

      1. Michael Steamweed

        *ensues self-slut-shaming
        (shut down hard at Joyce’s return salvo)
        ((titty torrent))
        (((booby blitzkrieg)))

  13. Charles Phipps

    Joyce: Dorothy, why are you and Jennifer sending boob pics to me? Are you accidentally sending them because you’re having an affair? If so, it’s okay, I’m cool with the gay now. I have a leather jacket.

    1. Michael Steamweed

      OMG 😀
      For the next year (our time), Joyce tries to get Dorothy and Jennifer to admit their forbidden lust for each other.

      1. Gigafreak

        Lesbian Love Sleuth investigation underway

        She must solve the case of her two breasties

        I mean her two besties

    2. Amós Batista

      *hits imaginary Like button*

    3. MacareuxMoine

      Jennifer did not sent her boob pic to Joyce, she merely gave Dorothy permission to do so, but Dorothy did not sent it either (as far as we know).

  14. DailyBrad

    I can unironically say I have been in this situation before.

  15. jeffepp

    Just tell Joe you’re time-sharing Joyce. He’s already said he’s cool with it, if you or Joyce bothered to listen.

    1. Lee

      He did? ?

    2. HueSatLight

      That is not a universal read. https://www.dumbingofage.com/startled/ https://www.dumbingofage.com/iloveyous/

      Besides, I do not see how Dorothy is in any way cool with “time-sharing” Joyce. Is “polycule disaster with extremely possessive person” what everyone‘s cheering for?

  16. IntangibleMatter

    As I said yesterday, the amount of potential Toxic Yuri in this comic has skyrocketed again recently, and I, for one, am thrilled about that.

    1. Doki

      Yessss same!

    2. Slartibeast Button, BIA

      I’d expect the environmental protection people to show up in sealed suits and seal off the area to prevent toxin spread…

      Except they probably don’t do that anymore.

      1. Michael Steamweed

        Not anymore, no. The new acting head-puppet just fired their clean air advisory committee and general science committee.

    3. Dante

      We’re getting invites to a full-on banquet here

      One could even say a smorgasbord.

    4. Clif

      Hurrah for all the crack ships!

    5. Yarrr

      Tamsyn Muir would approve I hope.

    6. morleuca

      Just in time for my reread of Onii-chan Ha Oshimai

    7. Scolopendra

      THIS IS WHAT I’M HERE FOR

  17. RassilonTDavros

    Been in a shit mood today but this is nice.

    1. True Survivor

      I’m sorry. I hope you feel better soon.

  18. True Survivor

    This type of technology glitch is the worst. You agonize over a decision: “Should I risk email this question?” “Should I expended more time to quadruple check before I submit this project?” “Did I go the right direction with this letter?”, etc. Then click send and you feel such relief because right or wrong, at least it is finally over and you can stop agonizing over the choice for a while. Then the email or text doesn’t go through and all the anxiety comes flooding back in.

    1. Rectilinear Propagation

      Right? Especially if you didn’t notice that it didn’t send right away so you have the added anxiety of “Oh G-d, they never got this!” “Are they angry?” “Is it too late to send it now?” “Do I try to explain what happened?” “Will trying to explain make me look like I’m making up excuses?”, etc.

      1. FlamestAndLight

        mhmm! I already take forever to send emails to people. One time I struggled for 6 months to send an email to a Rabbi i’d already talked to! But if that hadn’t gone through idk, it could have ended up being a full year before I finally followed up

    2. Yumi

      I’ve found I can lower my text/email anxiety by schedule sending things. Also because I might be working up the nerve to say something at 2:37am, but they don’t need to know that, have an email timestamped 8:13am, I am so normal.

  19. Florence

    Ohhhhhh, finally one of the big domino’s falls

    We are not at the full chaos moment but this is definitely at least some of the gasoline

    1. Michael Steamweed

      Future historians generally agree that:
      1. This date was the “Archduke Franz Ferdinand”-type flashpoint that started the World Boob Pic War.
      2. Dorothy and Joyce were just good friends.

      1. Florence

        “No one can know they were ever more than good friends”

  20. Doki

    ✨ GALPALS ✨

  21. Grimey

    The plot thicckens.

  22. Wendy

    Fellas, it is in fact gay to send titty pics to your best gal pal. 😉

    1. Nymph

      I mean, not necessarily. There are plenty of reasons to show off your boobs in a not gay way (hey look how well the surgery went! hey look at this new bra!) but this moment? In the comic above?

      SUPER gay.

      1. Wendy

        ‘Twas a joke.

    2. Gigafreak

      Breasties for the besties

    3. Bleeple Deeple Dew

      “Some Kinsey Zero you are”

  23. Joe Moose

    ♫ Give yourself over to absolute pleasure…
    Swim the warm waters of sins of the fle-e-esh! ♪

    1. Slartibeast Button, BIA

      Hey waiter! There’s a transvestite in my soup!

      Shhh! Or everyone will want one.

  24. EpochFlame

    well done, Dorothy

  25. Suet

    Once is a mistake. Twice is a circumstance. Thrice is something else cause Joyce isn’t reading back.

    Post-send clarity is when she will have to answer for this in the future.

    1. Dare

      Joyce is going to receive every one of those failed sends, right?

      “Dorothy, why did you send me 20 picture of your boobs?”

  26. GholaHalleck

    Joe is gonna need so much therapy after this disaster…

    1. NGPZ

      or some more condoms :p

      1. Dante

        Look some years ago I would’ve never say this but, I just want him to be happy :’33

        Why not both

        1. yak

          therapy condoms.

  27. Ray

    Nothing ventured, nothing gained…..

    1. morleuca

      In for a penny, in for a pounding?

      1. Schpoonman

        “Mom, I really don’t need to know this.”

        “And I really was.”

  28. CidGregor

    Oh okay I guess we’re doing this again.

  29. Woop de doop

    Noooooo dorothy nooo

    1. Jeremiah

      Yeeeeas Dorothy, yeeeeas.

  30. Qube

    I’ll totally cop to being the weird one here but I *really* want this throuple to happen

    1. Aura

      I think it’s not wanting it to happen that would make you the weird one in this crowd lol 😛

      1. TerribleTransit

        I dunno. A lot of people aren’t really wanting the throuple.

        First off, Joe and Dorothy don’t really have any romantic chemistry together, and it’s not really a throuple unless all three members are mutually dating the others. While they could develop something down the line, there’s not really anything there right now.

        Secondly, a throuple leaves Walky out in the cold, and he and Dorothy are nice together.

        So for me: polycule yes, throuple no. Joyce and Joe date, Joyce and Dorothy date, Dorothy and Walky date. At least as a starting point.

        1. thejeff

          And Joyce watches Dorothy and Walky have sex (While carefully blocking her view of Walky with her hands.)

    2. Nymph

      I don’t think that makes you weird.

    3. Rose by Any other Name

      Throuple! Throuple! Throuple!

      (I said it three times – for obvious reasons).

  31. Clif

    Having given us back Walky and Dorothy, Willis is teasing us with Leslie and Robin, Ruth and Jenifer, and Joyce and Dorothy.

    Unless it’s not teasing.

  32. BBCC

    Well then! Everyone loves a callback!

  33. poofdepoof

    I’m having a hard time remembering, has Joyce even responded since she got the “other” one?

    https://www.dumbingofage.com/2024/comic/book-15/02-the-one-where-jocelyne-returns/sitin/

    1. Clif

      Maybe this will remind her.

      1. poofdepoof

        Hopefully she’ll at least scroll up

        1. poofdepoof

          (to finally notice what she sent in the first place, I mean)

  34. Doopyboop

    There is no heterosexual explanation for this.

  35. BorkBorkBork

    Joe: I need to stop acting like such a horndog. Time to settle down and not just focus on sex.

    Joyce: so I’ve been looking into this thing called a ‘throuple’ and want to know your thoughts.

    1. Michael Steamweed

      RIP Joe Rosenthal.

    2. yak

      oh man that threesome would be *so* awkward.

      1. Freemage

        Thing is, I don’t think it would be a threesome; more likely, after seeking Joe’s permission, Joyce would start an additional relationship with Dorothy. (Dotty just doesn’t like or trust Joe enough to get naked in a room with him.)

        Mind you, this scenario would require these characters to be capable of reflection, nuance and communication, so…. yeah.

  36. pyrock_mania

    On the one hand, I’ve absolutely been in the position of doing an “offhanded” thing only for it to fail to post/send/share/etc. and then face the decision of re-sending multiple times to not waste the effort spent in the initial act, each time making the action less and less casual, until a sense of desperation creeps in and poisons the entire thing with its empty earnestness.

    On the other hand, Dorothy clearly has something more going on here than normal shame in trying too hard to be casual.

    1. Taffy

      She’s obviously got an itch only a woman can scratch.

  37. Needfuldoer

    The realization you took a joke too far only comes in hindsight.

  38. CianM1301

    I suppose the second question Joyce would probably be asking (y’know, after the obvious question of why her best friend sent her a titty pic) is how she managed to do it with no hands.

    1. Gigafreak

      Pah, any aspiring president needs to know how to delegate. That’s no mystery.

  39. Taffy

    The only way I can see this going is Joyce getting the picture while Joe happens to be looking at her phone, her asking him if she should escalate as a joke, and then half an hour later Dorothy gets a tastefully-shot photo of Joyce in her underwear, holding a math book.

    1. Florence

      Oh the escalation would be so good

      Soon there’ll be sets and elaborate costumes with hidden meanings, the whole campus will somehow be pulled in

      1. Michael Steamweed

        Future historians generally agree this was the day that the World Titty Pic War started.

  40. Shakes

    Trash goblins that crave mess rejoice.

    1. TheFlamingonator

      \0/

    2. Florence

      ????????

    3. Michael Steamweed

      Amber rejoices!

    4. NGPZ

      let Trash Goblin Chaos reign! >:3

  41. Furie

    Is tomorrow’s strip titled “Joe, can you read me my texts?” by any chance?

    1. poofdepoof

      LOL!

  42. Adept

    Poor Dotty

  43. Icalasari

    Oh, that’s a nice pic

    1. ValdVin

      Yep, and we didn’t even see all of it. My mind is racing with the idea of freckled bosoms goodness.

  44. darkoneko

    Don’t look at me Dotty, i have no responsability in this

  45. Kyulen

    Is it normal for women who are friends to send each other boob pics, as a joke? I wouldn’t know as a man.

    1. Wilde

      I do believe people who say it happens, but… It hasn’t been my experience. As an AFAB pan person who has had other women show me / send pictures of their boobs or butt to me, under “platonic” contexts (“look at my cute new bra!”) these gestures have almost exclusively come from women who (either previously or later on) expressed direct and explicit sexual interest in me.

      In the couple of cases where it wasn’t like that, it was straight women who talked an awful lot about their list of hot women they would sleep with if they were bi or would be “cool with their boyfriend sleeping with”. As someone who was once deep in denial myself, this is why I look little sideways at women who get especially defensive about how totally platonic their spicy photos to their bestie are.

      Some people swear it’s a thing though, and I try to believe in other people’s experiences. It’s just challenging for me because one of the people I knew who swore it was a thing was also a person who sent me a ‘platonic’ bra pic and a few months later asked me if I wanted to hook up lol.

      1. Yumi

        I have friends who have sent pictures to friends in a platonic way, though nobody involved was cis or het. They’d say affirming things and I guess the goal was to help with body positivity.

        That’s not what’s happening here, though.

    2. crys

      I have a straight female friend who is very comfortable with discussing her sexual activities with other female friends. She’s kind of like Roz, to use a DoA point of reference. Anyway she’s send me boob pics out of outrage that they didn’t elicit awestruck responses from her then boyfriend (“don’t my tits look great here?” and yeah they did).

      So that’s one data point, but certainly a very different type of gesture from what Dorothy is doing here!

  46. Yumi

    Now that Joyce has received a picture of Jennifer’s boobs followed by a picture of Dorothy’s boobs, I’m imaging Joyce trying to figure out what she’s supposed to do with them. “Am I supposed to compare them? Does she want feedback? Should I find a gold star to give her? And not tell her that tell her that I’m giving Jennifer two stars?”
    By their next interaction, Joyce has created a report card for Dorothy’s boobs, and Dorothy learns more about her kinks.

    1. Rabid Rabbit

      Oh, like Dorothy doesn’t already know that a graded report card would turn her on.

      The REALLY fun bit will be when Joe finds out what Joyce is doing, when she asks him for a second opinion to make sure she’s doing her homework right, and he has to explain why ranking women’s bodies is wrong.

      1. Michael Steamweed

        Oh I want to see THAT conversation! 😀

  47. Heavensrun

    I cannot *wait* to see what trainwreck way Joyce misinterprets this.

    “Haha oh I get it we’re sending titty pictures as a joke!” (Sends one to Jennifer)

  48. AnonGrouch

    for the love of all that is lesbian please have this trigger joyce reaching out to her sister about the confusing feelings it causes

  49. AnonGrouch

    For those keeping score, this is also plot. And it does indeed thicken

    1. Schpoonman

      I thought Amber was Thicc Dorothy.

      1. J.Gawain

        Exactly! Dorothy feels inadequate, so she’s trying to catch up.

  50. Rabid Rabbit

    JOYCE: “Aww! It’s so sweet of Dorothy to celebrate my sister’s coming-out like this! I’ve got to send this to Jocelyn right away!”

  51. Bleuryder

    Aww yeah! Are they on their way to being roommates? If Joyce does become roommates with Dorothy, Becky is gonna be beyond pissed on so many levels.

  52. Rabisch

    I love the look on Dorothy’s face at the end. She realizes she’s done something with unpredictable & irreparable consequences. Whatever happens, I’m glad she sent the photo. The unspoken between her and Joyce was becoming too much.

  53. Amós Batista

    *manifesting gayness, to make this ship cannon*

  54. Looney

    holy shit it’s happening

  55. RoyanRannedos

    And Dorothy’s small frontal lobe grew three sizes that day.

  56. Mewzard

    As a person who has been a fan the idea of Joyce and Dorothy as a couple…the possibilities of where this could go are certainly exciting.

    At the very least, I hope this is the spark that finally gets Joyce and Dorothy to at least have a conversation about them (because healthy communication is important).

  57. HueSatLight

    Dorothy quickly sending a follow-up text: “Does that freckle look strange to you? Should I see a doctor?”

    1. Yumi

      Joyce: “I can’t really see; maybe I should look at it in person.”

  58. SteelyBran

    It’s a fakeout. She’s just sending it to Walky :p

    1. Morleuca

      oh that would be a delightful tease

  59. thumb

    Staring out the window, I nod sagely.
    “Yes… ha ha ha… yes,” I whisper to myself.
    On my shirt is written the word “Sickos”. I ignore it, confident that I know what’s good.

  60. Zamperla

    Ahh, the Impulsive Screen Poke. one singular BOOP and no takebacks.

  61. Joy

    LMAO LET’S GOOOOOOOOOO

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